Limited/Special Editions, Path of the Adversary, Path of the Advocate, Relicblade, Spin-o-matic

Relicblade: Adepticon Alts plus a bonus Cat

June 15, 2020 Lucas the Beard Leave a comment

These alts, slated for release at the Adepticon that wasn’t, were so popular they sold out within hours. Fortunately they were reprinted for slowpokes like me.

They also act as previews for the currently running Storms of Kural Kickstarter. The project is for a new two-player starter set, featuring two four model warbands, each model representing a different faction. The stat cards were released in the second edition rulebook, but these are the first models available.

The starter set is all single piece models, to be more accessible to people unfamiliar with metal models. These alt poses wouldn’t work in a single piece, but they aren’t exactly complex (torso and arms). I like slight posability, plus it would be easier to do simple conversions.

As a bonus, have a cat. You can never have too many cats in Relicblade.

A Iguan Marauder comes down the stairs to find a wizard about to light the brazier.

Spin-o-matic, Underworlds

Underworlds: Stormsire’s Cursebreakers

June 10, 2020 Lucas the Beard Leave a comment

The other half of the Nightvault box is Stormsire’s Cursebreakers. The Stormcast Eternals tend not to do much for me — they’re a bit too clean. Still, a small number can be fun to paint.

The blue armor is Turbodork’s Ice to Never colorshift paint, the same as I used on the chibi pony knight.

It’s primarily a blue that shifts to a pink. After washing and dullcote, the shift quite subtle, which I think gives it a nice rich color without being too distracting.

Once again I find painting an Underworlds warband to be a ton of fun. It’s just a few models, and then you can move onto something else.

Nightvault, Underworlds

Underworlds: Thorns of the Briar Queen

June 8, 2020 Lucas the Beard Leave a comment

Underworlds is another example of me trying to find a “filler game” that can quickly be brought out if the main game of the evening ends early. I found a Nightvault box for cheap online so picked it up.

These nighthaunts are done nearly entirely with contrast paints. The bases, metals, and purple shawls are the main exceptions.

I don’t totally love the blue skin. It has a decent ethereal quality to it, but the color doesn’t really gel as well as I’d like.

Possibly my favorite detail in the set is the facial features visible under the hood on the Everhanged.

One distinct feature of the nighthaunts in Underworlds is the high model count. That means a big pile of minions. Each sculpt has individual character, although I wish they had unified attack stats.

Blitz Bowl, Spin-o-matic

Blitz Bowl: Orcs

June 3, 2020 Lucas the Beard Leave a comment

The other half of the Blitz Bowl box is orcs. These guys are nice an meaty, with a far more fantastic appearance than the humans.

The thrower is the most lightly armored (in appearance, anyways) of the group. Much like the humans, I quite appreciate that the pose clearly communicates the position.

I used contrast paints for the skin (Orc Flesh, handily enough), but highlighted after it was dry, and other paints for the rest of the models.

I went through quite an emotional roller coaster while painting the blitzer. At first I thought he had a goofy looking head, perhaps from a few too many head butts. Then, after studying the stat card, I thought I had missed a helmet piece, though the sprue was long gone. Finally, I realized I painted the helmet in skin tones. Oh well, he can keep looking goofy, from too many head butts.